The Character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche‚ Stella’s is by far the most complex character of the play. An intelligent and sensitive woman who values literature and the creativity of the human imagination‚ she is also emotionally traumatised and repressed. This gives license for her own imagination to become a haven for her pain. One senses that Blanches own view of her real self as opposed to her ideal self has been increasingly blurred over the years until
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Usually she sings or talks about all that unrealistic fantasies. 1. When she lost Belle Reve‚ she’s having "intimacies" with strangers. At last‚ she got kicked out of the school for having an relationship with 17 year old boy. 2. At first Stanley tried to rip off her fantasy‚ she quickly got along with Stanley’s best friend‚ Mitch. Finally‚ she put Mitch on her side instead of Stanley’s. 3. When Stanley firstly mentioned about ’the flamingo’ she got all nervous if her secrets would be
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essay‚ it seems that Lytton’s relationship with her mother‚ Lady Lytton‚ slowed her down in her activities within the WSPU. As if she would have wanted to be more involved in the movement of the enfranchisement‚ Lytton wrote in her novel‚ “I have done nothing that you need be ashamed of. I have refused to do several things I should like to do‚ and would do but for you.” (Lytton‚ 1914). Even if she did not live with her mother‚ she still had the feeling that she had to give an account to her mother of
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HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered; why we find the lead story in the farthest upper-right hand column? Like most people‚ we try to keep up with the news by watching it on television. That is how 65% of us get 100% of our news – from the 24-odd-minute television news broadcast. What television news bring is primarily a front-page headline service only. To get all one needs to know‚ one has to amplify these headlines with a complete account of the news from a well-edited
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blaming Stella for abandoning her back at the plantation home. While Stella thinks that Blanche is overreacting‚ Blanche is trying to express her true feelings of agony to Stella and how these events have affected her life for the worse. Quote #2 Speaker & Page: Blanche (Scene 4‚ bottom of 73) Quotation: “Yes you are‚ your fix is worse than mine is! Only you’re not being sensible about it. I’m going to do something. Get hold of myself and make myself a new life! Significance: While Stella seems
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to the past. She has lived her whole life in Laurel‚ a small southern town; her family had aristocratic roots and taught Blanche about some of the finer things in life. Unfortunately‚ she cannot cope with life outside Laurel. Her life is a lesson in how a single tragic event can ruin the future; her refusal to come out of the time warp and cope with the real world‚ makes her unrealistic and flighty. At the age of sixteen‚ she fell in love with‚ worshipped‚ and eloped with a sensitive boy. She believed
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The Truth Hurts A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is a play about a southern lady named Blanche from Mississippi visiting her sister Stella‚ who is married to Stanley and currently living in Elysian Fields‚ New Orleans. Blanche arrives in Elysian Fields‚ and throughout her entire stay with Stella and Stanley‚ there is tension and conflict occurring in Stella’s house. Even though Blanche and Stella were brought up in the South under wealthy conditions‚ the conflict is mainly caused
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commodities‚ the bourgeoisie’s power is compromised. The working class continues to be exploited and is further alienated in its attempts to keep up with the industry. Marx doesn’t go into much detail about how Communists would run the economy. In the first part of the manifesto‚ Marx explains how society started off as communal but as time went on society has become more unequal. The Manifesto is a brief political summary rather than economic‚ of what Communism is about. It lacks concise‚ specific
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Based on my reading thus far‚ Blanche proves the most antagonistic characteristic. She is sister of Stella and came to meet her unexpectedly. She lost her husband few years earlier and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also seeks for people attention and wants them to complement her. She has bad drinking habit which she tries to hide from everyone. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior causes a lot of problems in Stella and Stanley life. Blanche displayed cunning‚ manipulative
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more sensitive and sincere than the average person. Blanche asks Mitch to cover the light bulb with a paper lantern because she can’t "stand a naked light bulb‚ any more than a rude remark or a vulgar action." After more conversation‚ Blanche explains how she tried to teach English and an appreciation for literature to youngsters who were not interested in it. As Stella comes out of the bathroom‚ Blanche turns on the radio and begins a little waltz‚ and Mitch clumsily tries to follow when suddenly Stanley
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